Red light on power up. No image on monitor. Pc fans working.

\015 Hi, when i switch on my pc, where i used to see a green light next to the on/off button it now shows red. The monitor goes into standby as there is no signal. The fans on the pc are working but I dont think I can hear the hard drive kicking in. I've checked all leads etc. Can anyone help. :)\015

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On a computer mainboard there are usually a number of connecting pins right next to one another called RESET, POWER LED, HD LED etc.The power led often leads to the green LED next your power button to show that the juice is available and on. The cable that leads to the red LED is usually the HD LED which shows that a disk drive is being accessed.Since the red LED is active, one of your disks is probably being accessed and that's where the problem is. Either the disk is damaged, the cable is still not inserted properly or the bios is having problems identifying one of your disk drives.

1) Power the computer off. Take the power cable out. Make sure that you are grounded (have no static charge on your body). Take all of the cables between your mainboard and your disk drives off.2) Plug in one of your disk drives, reconnect the power cable, switch the power on and watch the monitor. If all goes well you will see that the bios has recognized the disk drive and will simply display a message that the operating system for example isn't available or no harddisk drive is present (if you connected something other than a harddisk drive).3) repeat this process with the other drives, powering the pc completely off each time and then adding a new disk drive.4) once you've reached the point where the red LED drive is displayed but no message is available, you've found the culprit that is keeping your pc from booting properly. Hopefully the cable has just been stuck on improperly or the cable is damaged (Check it), rather than you having disk drive damage.

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